--- title: If a sailor unties one knot, he has a fair wind; when he unties the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: If a sailor unties one knot, he has a fair wind; when he unties the second, it blows hard; but if the third and fourth are loosened, then comes a storm, which will root up whole forests. Who acts: sailor, knot, storm. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailor, knot, storm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:175:17 # text = If a sailor unties one knot, he has a fair wind; when he unties the second, it blows hard; but if the third and fourth are loosened, then comes a storm, which will root up whole forests. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 unties untie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 knot knot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 unties untie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 advcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 conj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 loosened loosen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 root root VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **untie** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a sailor | one knot | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | sailor | a fair wind | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient | | 3 | **untie** | present | sailor | the second | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=Patient | | 4 | **blow** | present | knot | | | | | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **loosen** | present · passive | a sailor *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | | 6 | **come** | present | a storm | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **root up** | future | a storm | whole forests | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forest=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/18/) - ↑ back to [The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/)